this looks really nice and clean! gettin' ideas from the background showing through the transparent div. or wait.. it's not transparent XD. but it's a great idea. i don't thionk transparency is widely excepted among browsers yet (moz).

Hmmm that's a great idea. It might also make adding a custom header image a bit more simple should a user want to, because right now I have inplace padding and margins that *may need to be removed if a header image was used. If I had a transparent gif set to zero, that spacing could also apply to a custom header... hmmm. Thanks for the idea

you're welcome, of course the blank part would be on the upper side of whatever header/div bg you would use. i used to brain storm about this stuff. trying to get scripts to work properly sucks. so make due with blankness.